Euripides II: Andromache/Hecuba/The Suppliant Women/Electra (Euripides)(Paperback)

"Euripides II" contains the plays Andromache, translated by Deborah Roberts; Hecuba, translated by William Arrowsmith; The Suppliant Women, translated by Frank William Jones; and Electra, translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent classicists David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, those translations combined accuracy, poetic immediacy, and clarity of presentation to render the surviving masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides in an English so lively and compelling that they remain the standard translations. Today, Chicago is taking pains to ensure that our Greek tragedies remain the leading English-language versions throughout the
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